Explaining female crime

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Functionalist Sex Role Theory-

  • Boys encoruaged to be 'tough', agressive and risk taking, therefore more disposed to committing acts of violence.
  • *Parsons iedntiifies differences in crime and deviance to gender roles of conventional families. Men take the instrumental breadwinner role, performed outside the home. Women perform expressive role in home, take repsonosibility for caring for the children.
  • ^Meaning men reject feminine model roles of tenderness, gentleness and emotion. Instead they distant themselves by engaging in 'compensatory compulsroy masculinity' through agression and social behaviour.
  • Men have less socalising role than women in conventional nuclear family, so socialsiation is more difficult.
  • *Cohen, relative lack of adult male role model means boys turn to street crimes as a source of masculine indentity.
  • Subcultural groups (male street crime) status is earned by acts of toughness and risk-taking.
  • New theorists argue the absence of a male role model in matrifocal lone parent families lead to boys turning to criminal street gangs as a source of status and identity.

Heidensohn; Patriarhcal control-

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